I’ve had it..

[Greyman50]

Went looking for plexiglas and some glass panes. Local Ace is WAY high but Home Depot is about 8-10 miles. Recently been disappointed in Home Depot as they just don’t have anything I’m looking for. Well, what do you know? Home Depot DOES NOT CUT GLASS!!!! Just what are management thinking?????? Anyway I’m through even going in Home Depot ever again. Lowes is almost 20 miles away but have to do what you have to do. Oh, forgot,Lowes gives a Veteran discount and Home Depot doesn't.

 

[bigwheelzip]

When I've needed replacement glass, the local glazier gave great service.

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[TheHobbyist]

Are there any local contractors that can help? My guess is better quality, better service, the a big box store (of any flavor)? Most areas will have at least one contractor that offers this service, although it is generally an additional service to their main business (door install, windows/siding, et cetera). Good luck, I know how frustrating it can be...especially in this time with very few available contractors for B2C.

 

[Kenna]

I try to avoid Home Creepot. We usually go to Menards or Ace

 

[Shortcut Man]

Went looking for plexiglas and some glass panes. Local Ace is WAY high but Home Depot is about 8-10 miles. Recently been disappointed in Home Depot as they just don’t have anything I’m looking for. Well, what do you know? Home Depot DOES NOT CUT GLASS!!!! Just what are management thinking?????? Anyway I’m through even going in Home Depot ever again. Lowes is almost 20 miles away but have to do what you have to do. Oh, forgot,Lowes gives a Veteran discount and Home Depot doesn't.

Hopefully, your local Home Depot won't go out of business from loss of your business. Wonder what you'll find to gripe about next?

 

[BigBoy99]

Oh, forgot,Lowes gives a Veteran discount and Home Depot doesn't.

I get the 10% veteran discount at BOTH Lowes and Home Depot! Menard's refuses to give the veterans a discount.

 

[Imissedagain]

South Florida, along with being the Boating Capitol of the galaxy, is also the Plexiglass Capitol.
We use lots of it and I should have bought stock in that useful product as it's everywhere these days.
The Artisans who actual know what they're doing are always busy.

A Teak and Plexiglass wonderland.

An oversized plexiglass roll top desk, that looked as close to being made as if it was one casting, was a project I was commissioned to make back in the early '70s by a talented Pratt graduate.
When I gave the price of just the materials cut to my specs and polished before assembly, 25K was our cost, the project ended.
It would have been fun to build and make it light up as well.

When asked how the roller would be made to work and still be clear like, I said, "it's something only a fisherman would think of".

These days a big 3D printer might work.

 

[Greyman50]

No local glazing/ glass shop close or thats where I would have gone. IIRC, closest one is farther than Lowes. Didn’t mention the “ person” that helped me at Lowes could not grasp how to cut the larger sheet of plexiglas into 3 pieces, ruined a sheet and had to give me a more expensive piece than the first, her fault, so Lowes ate the cost difference. Also remembered going into Lowes a year or so ago, asked this young guy where the pop rivet were. He got a confused/ dumb look on his face and asked “ whats that”?

 

[Engineer1911]

........ . . . . . .Also remembered going into Lowes a year or so ago, asked this young guy where the pop rivet were. He got a confused/ dumb look on his face and asked “ whats that”?

You have two problems:

1] Your expectations are way too high -- seriously.

2] You are an antique. Pop rivets -- you got to be kidding.

I have a 1968 model Pop Rivet brand tool in my tool box with 3 sizes of rivets. Have not used it in 45+ years. I feel your pain,

 

[lihpster]

I actually had a Home Depot employee tell me they didn't carry microwaves. While standing 2 feet from a stack of boxes displayed in the middle aisle, that contained...? You guessed it. Microwave ovens. It's not the only time I have been told, unequivocally, that they did not carry said item only to watch me find it and purchase it.

 

[Imissedagain]

You have two problems:

1] Your expectations are way too high -- seriously.

2] You are an antique. Pop rivets -- you got to be kidding.

I have a 1968 model Pop Rivet brand tool in my tool box with 3 sizes of rivets. Have not used it in 45+ years. I feel your pain,

Stainless pop rivets are used very often to mount marine electronics gear and other useful stuff on masts and spreaders.

 

[Greyman50]

Sorry but I built, installed, trained operators on hi tech machine tools that cost several million bucks back in the 80’s , so, I’ve used many tools, measuring devices, installed 1000’s of fasteners and used to know the DIN system. If you dont know what DIN is I seriously doubt we need to talk fasteners, lol.

 

[g-dad]

This is an interesting thread.

My part time retirement gig is working for Lowe's in the tools and hardware section. Been there 4 yrs. First week there started cutting glass and plexiglass. No big deal. These places that say they can't or won't cut glass... that's just wrong. Maybe the employee just doesn't want to do it. We recently hired a young fella and he has refused to learn how to it. Don't know how much longer he'll be there.

Moving on to the pop rivet discussion. I had a customer ask for pop rivets. I took him to the rivet section and he told me I didn't know what I was talking about because none of my rivets were pop rivets and he left po'd. In my research I cannot find a difference between a pop rivet and a regular rivet. I think it's terminology for the same part. What do you say?

 

[Alpo]

A rivet and a pop rivet are two entirely different things, installed in two entirely different manners.

 

[oldbrownhat]

A rivet and a pop rivet are two entirely different things, installed in two entirely different manners.

I know the term Pop rivet but hadn't heard it for ages. Apparently Stanley invented the POP™ Rivet.

McMaste Carr lists "pop rivets", which is what I think of as "rivets". Are you including also "Rosie the riveter" hot rivets:

. If you dont know what DIN is I seriously doubt we need to talk fasteners, lol.

"Deustche Industrie Norm", nicht wahr? I remember it from those finicky connectors used on (mostly) European audio gear years ago but I think it covers everything from soup to nuts, like ISO or SAE etc.

 

[g-dad]

A rivet and a pop rivet are two entirely different things, installed in two entirely different manners.

Ok, that's what the customer said but couldn't / wouldn't explain the difference. Just did another web search and every reference to a pop rivet is what we sell.

Shed some light in this please.

 

[hsguy]

Probably more than you want to know and the photos will strain your eyes but here goes. Know Your Rivets | Hanson Rivet & Supply Co | (800) 777-4838

 

[g-dad]

Probably more than you want to know and the photos will strain your eyes but here goes. Know Your Rivets | Hanson Rivet & Supply Co | (800) 777-4838

Thank you John! That pretty much confirms what I thought. The blind rivet Lowe's sells is also called a pop rivet. At least according to Hanson Rivet and supply.

 

[oldbrownhat]

Probably more than you want to know and the photos will strain your eyes but here goes. Know Your Rivets | Hanson Rivet & Supply Co | (800) 777-4838

A "riveting" read but yes, a little overwhelming

I will parry with this: "When is a Phillips not a Phillips?" and scroll down to Step 7: Recessed Cross Drive Systems.

Having digested that, the next time you're in your regular "hardware" store, ask the freshly-minted clerk where their Sel-O-Fit or Frearson screwdrivers and bits are

 

[Engineer1911]

And then there are Cherry brand pop rivets that hold the tail cones of jet engines together. Sheet Metal shop hated Phase Dock because we had meticulous "loose rivet" inspections every 25 flying hours in the tail cones. Every day some lucky soul was there for 3 - 4 hours drilling out old and installing new rivets. I believe there were either titanium or some nasty nickel alloy.